Geopolitical Futures’ annual forecast predicts the maturation of the microchip-based productivity cycle means that the economic challenges facing America’s middle- and lower-class “can’t be solved.”
President-elect Donald Trump said Ford had called to reassure him that the company has decided not to move its Lincoln assembly operations from Louisville, Kentucky to Mexico.
Ford Motors has now announced it intends to move all its small car manufacturing lines out of Detroit and the U.S. and into its Mexico-based plants.
The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.
Fiat Chrysler has announced that it is laying off 1,300 workers at its Sterling Heights, Michigan plant.
In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.
Donald Trump, the billionaire and national GOP presidential frontrunner who just won the New Hampshire primary and is polling ahead of the field in South Carolina, is seizing a major political opportunity with the news that Ford and Carrier are shipping thousands of U.S. jobs to Mexico.
A drawn out Great Recession in the U.S. over the course of Barack Obama’s Presidency is prompting businesses to outsource operations to Mexico and contributes more to Mexicans leaving America than arriving, according to a new Pew Research study. If Pew estimates are accurate,
GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump spoke to a sold-out audience in Michigan on Tuesday night just one hour from the Motor City. He brought up Ford building new plants overseas, vowing that if he was president, the plants would be built in America.
The value of Venezuela’s bolivar currency collapsed this month, as air carriers and U.S. automakers announce they will only do business in U.S. dollars.
Engadget’s description of the new Ford S-Max car and its Intelligent Speed Limiter technology is both fascinating and creepy as hell: “A camera mounted on the windshield scans the road signs on the sides of the highway and, when the vehicle enters a 20mph zone, the system reduces the top speed to match. Rather than controlling the speed with automatic braking, the car limits its own velocity by adjusting the amount of fuel being pushed to the engine.”
California Gov. Jerry Brown, not known for his reticence on many issues, has declined to say much about the ongoing protests against the non-indictments of police officers in several high-profile cases in which police have shot unarmed black suspects. In
On December 5, Saudi-born US Naval engineer Mostafa Ahmed Awwad was arrested for allegedly passing secrets about the new Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier to an undercover FBI agent and also for discussing ways the carrier could be sunk with
The creators of the new pro-Hillary Clinton country music video that’s exploding across the internet do not appear to like the Ford Motor Company. In the video, the ’90s model Ford F-150 pickup is spotted missing the blue Ford oval in
For mainstream American audiences, the late Stanley Kubrick wasn’t the most accessible director of his time. There is no question, though, that his influence is still everywhere in modern film. How many filmmakers working today have been influenced or mentored
#HandsUpWalkOut protests involving hundreds of protesters occurred throughout California Monday, as activists nationwide continued to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the shooting death of Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown. Walkouts were called for
A Mexican couple was caught entering Texas with $531,000 in cash hidden in their cars at the Texas border by the border sheriff’s deputies. According to court records obtained by Breitbart Texas, Webb County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Alma Marrufo and her
A U.S. Border Patrol K9 alerted agents to a load of 112pounds of liquid methamphetamine valued at $3.5 million. The meth wasdiscovered at the Border Patrol’s Falfurrias Checkpoint in Brooks County locatedabout eighty miles from the Texas-Mexico border region on
A Nigerian court will pursue the death penalty against 14-year-old Wasilat Tasi’u for allegedly murdering her 35-year-old husband, Umar Sani. The case caught the attention of activists around the world concerned about child brides and forced marriages. “She was married
Writing at the Daily Beast, former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (TN-D), has decided that “voters love Common Core” simply because the standards “work.” Ford’s interpretation of the midterm election results is that voters sent a message not to abandon
Students at the University of California Los Angeles held a protest in solidarity with demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country on Tuesday, as they blasted the grand jury’s decision not to prosecute police officer Darren Wilson in the
Seven of the eight serial rebels whose constituency demographics roughly replicate those in Rochester and Strood would win their seats back if they defected to the UK Independence Party (Ukip), according to calculations by Ukip expert Rob Ford. Ford (who
The Buffalo Bills scheduled eight home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium this season for the first time since 2007. Mother Nature had other plans. The NFL rescheduled the Bills-Jets Sunday 1 p.m. game for Monday. The Bills will now host
The Coalition for Community Control Over the Police are organizing activists across the United States to rally if a Ferguson grand jury decides not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown on August 9. A grand
Fear, distrust and racial tension pervades South Los Angeles three months after an unarmed African American was fatally shot by two Los Angeles Police Department officers last August during a violent physical struggle. KTLA reported that Los Angeles police, city
Monday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative author and a former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Ben Stein said he is “terrified” by President Barack Obama’s insistence on using false racism charges to divide America
Monday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative author and a former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Ben Stein said, “America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that just can’t seem to get
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has abandoned a controversial plan to convert paved roads to unpaved roads along the highway routes that lead to some of the state’s top oil producing areas. When this idea was
Euro MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a grant to workers in Belgium, France and Spain. Over 3,100 workers were made redundant by Peugeot Citroën Automobiles (PSA) in France and crude steel producer Carsid SA Belgium because of “major structural changes
Sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. This weekend’s college football slate is the best I’ve seen in years. A veritable cornucopia of awesome that will leave us spent, yet asking for more. Given all of the
Britain’s oldest think tank, the Labour party supporting Fabian Society has released a report detailing the “clear and present danger” that Ukip poses to the party’s 2015 election hopes. The report, titled Revolt on the Left: Labour’s UKIP problem and
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, approximately 40 years ago, devised secret contingency plans to attack Cuba with strategic airstrikes and “smash” Fidel Castro, declassified documents show. Kissinger was infuriated by Castro’s decision to send troops to Angola in
Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, claimed that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is motivated in his fight against the GOP Establishment by a desire to get revenge for how members of the establishment treated his father on Monday’s
Dozens of students walked out of classes in Jefferson County, Colorado high schools Tuesday, but likely not for the reason they were apparently led to believe. According to the Associated Press, students were protesting “a conservative-led school board proposal to
As Daniele Watts’s story of racial bias unravels, police are discussing a pilot program that is currently being tested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s stations, in which four different types of body cameras are being used to record everything that
Which CFB preview piece was it last week that told you to watch out for USC on the road against Boston College, Georgia on the road against South Carolina, and Kentucky against Florida? It was this one. So if you
Last Friday, to a packed hall at the modernist Ford Foundation building not far from the UN, former Sec. of State and presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she was embarrassed that the United States has never ratified the UN
When asked by ABC’s Dan Harris if he’d consider a run for the Oval Office, former president and CEO of Ford Motors Alan Mulally didn’t make a point of saying he would not one day seek the highest elected office in the
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford withdrew his re-election bid Friday as he seeks treatment for a tumor in his abdomen, dramatically ending a campaign he had doggedly pursued despite a stint in rehab and calls for him to
This weekend’s college football slate spotlights shrinking violets, Bermuda Triangles, and purple-necked rage. Oklahoma vs. Tennessee In most walks of life, if someone were to put the moniker “Big Game” in front of your name, it would probably be a
